Photo: Loading Pulpwood Into A Boxcar (Circa 1940) Photo from Louisiana Digital Library: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/mcneese-psl%3A2804 Click and scroll on photo to enlarge it

Photo: Unloading Molasses (1930s) Photo from Louisiana Digital Library: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/state-lwp%3A2293 Click and scroll on photo to enlarge it. Bob Chaparro Heme

Does anyone know if the Southern used metal dies to stamp a car’s road number on its center sill? The question is to try to determine a car’s original number so it can be painted and numbered correctl

Hi List Members, PRR GLCa car #250391 with 'Coal Goes to War' paint 1942 https://digital.hagley.org/PRR_13865?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=f0ee2ade5faf6a7f860d&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=5&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=8 Enjoy! C

Hi List Members, INT 5433 designed as PRR GLa clone with extended height in 1927 Roda Colliery https://digital.hagley.org/1993233_G2_S2_010_14_006?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=b8ad6ae0d3664107f139&solr_nav%5Bpage

Hi List Members, Westmoreland Coal Co gondola 1014 wreck. This looks to have been built to the PRR class GS design https://digital.hagley.org/PRR_05652?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=01866cd7a7e23fc2b431&solr_nav%5

Hi List Members, B&O twin hopper 223552 and PRR quad 178760 hopper in 1940 https://digital.hagley.org/AVD_1969092_01O_008 Enjoy! Claus Schlund

Hi List Members, RDG quad hopper and twin hopper at mine https://digital.hagley.org/80318_038?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=31692b75af23078caadf&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=1&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=6 Enjoy! Claus Schlund

blown up image from the next book I’m working on I thought initially this was a Mather car but not sure. Any thoughts or suggestions on the prototype? Taken at East Yards on the MP in Kansas City, Mo

Photos: UP/Oregon Short Line Livestock Car 39245 (S-40-10) Photos from Don Strack’s UtahRails Website. https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Union-Pacific/UP-Freight-Cars/i-TdhsXmL/A https://donstra

Photo: Cloverland/CDPX 102 Milk Car (Undated) Photo from Louisiana Digital Library: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/hnoc-clf%3A10233 Click and scroll on photo to enlarge it. Bob C

Brian: Yes I read it and I would like you to explain your comment. You stated that the four cars that you pictures were “Other cars not suitable of interchange?”. . All four cars could be seen in inte

Photo: Texaco Tank Cars (1925) Photo from Louisiana Digital Library: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/state-lhp%3A2063 Click and scroll on photo to enlarge it. Bob Chaparro Hemet,

Photo: IC Boxcar 25960 (Circa 1955) Photo from Louisiana Digital Library: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/hnoc-clf%3A4375 Click and scroll on photo to enlarge it. Bob Chaparro Hem

Photo: GATX 15711 & Other Freight Cars (Undated) Photo from Louisiana Digital Library: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/hnoc-clf%3A3162 Click and scroll on photo to enlarge it. Bob

Photo: Roof View Of Wabash Boxcar (Undated) Photo from Louisiana Digital Library: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/lsm-jnt%3A462 Click and scroll on photo to enlarge it. Bob Chapar

Claus, I think that this is just west of Frankford Junction, and that the K4s is probably bound for New Jersey, and is quite possibly a "racetrack special" headed to one of the horse racing tracks in

Photo: IC Flat Car 62045 (Undated) Photo from Louisiana Digital Library: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/hnoc-clf%3A9261 Click and scroll on photo to enlarge it. Bob Chaparro Heme

Photo: URTC Banana Reefer 40383 (?) (Undated) Photo from Louisiana Digital Library: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/hnoc-clf%3A2042 Click and scroll on photo to enlarge it. Bob Ch

Friends, Some 20 years ago when I used to take Amtrak's Cardinal to Chicago on the first leg of my annual trip to visit my parents on the Left Coast, I passed by the Armco/AK Steel furnace complex in